Bethany College Announces Search for Full-time Pastor

Bethany College is excited to announce that it is working with the Central States Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to reestablish a full-time Campus Pastor call at Bethany College for the first time since 2015. After a series of interim campus ministers, Messiah Evangelical Lutheran Church partnered with Bethany College in 2017 facilitating the flexibility for Pastor Truhe to be able to serve both organizations. The Bethany community is deeply grateful for Messiah Lutheran’s faithful partnership and Rev. Truhe’s caring ministry to Bethany students, faculty, and staff over these past five years. 

Over the next few months, Bethany college will be working with the Central States Synod to conduct a nation-wide search for an ELCA pastor to be called to ministry at Bethany College. Bethany is in the process of incorporating the input of current students, faculty, and staff in shaping the college’s ministry site profile. In establishing a new full-time campus ministry call within the college, Bethany seeks to secure a place for the ELCA’s values of reconciliation, justice, inclusion, diversity, courage, openness to change, and faithful stewardship at the center of the Bethany student experience. We look forward to seeing how this new full-time campus ministry position will continue the work of deepening community and spiritual life on campus.